Morgan's CavalryNeale Publishing Company, 1906 - 441 páginas |
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advance guard arms army arrived attack Bardstown battalion battle Bragg Breckinridge bridge brigade Bryantsville Buell Burkesville bushwhackers camp Captain Captain Morgan captured cavalry charge Colonel Cluke Colonel Morgan column command commenced Confederate crossed the river Cumberland Cynthiana dashed detachments dismounted division encamped enemy enemy's eral escape expedition Federal fight fire flank force Frankfort front gallant Gallatin Gano garrison gotten Green river guns halted Harrodsburg Hartsville horses howitzers hundred yards Hutchinson immediately infantry Johnson's Island killed latter Lawrenceburg Lebanon Lexington Lieutenant Lieutenant-Colonel Louisville mand McMinnville ment miles morning Mount Sterling moved Murfreesboro Nashville night officer Ohio party pickets pieces of artillery pike position prisoners raid railroad reached rear regiment retreat returned road scouts Second Kentucky sent shot side skirmish soldiers soon Southern Sparta Squadron surrender Tennessee thousand tion town troops tucky vicinity videttes wagons wounded Wytheville
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Página 232 - Resolved by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the thanks of Congress are due, and are hereby tendered, to Brig.
Página 304 - Although the weather was intensely warm, another slung seven pairs of skates around his neck, and chuckled over the acquisition. I saw very few articles of real value taken ; they pillaged like boys robbing an orchard. I would not have believed that such a passion could have been developed so ludicrously among any body of civilized men.
Página 120 - Lexington on the 28th inst., with nearly twelve hundred, having been absent just twentyfour days, during which time I travelled over a thousand miles, captured seventeen towns, destroyed all the Government supplies and arms in them, dispersed about fifteeen hundred home guard, and parolled nearly twelve hundred regular troops. I lost in killed, wounded, and missing, of the number that I carried into Kentucky, about ninety.
Página 301 - she tossed her snub nose defiantly, like an angry beauty of the coal pits, sidled a little toward the town, and commenced to scold. A bluish-white funnel-shaped cloud spouted out from her left-hand bow, and a shot flew at the town ; then changing front forward she snapped a shell at the men on the other side.
Página 113 - FINNELL, Frankfort: I wish you to move the forces at Frankfort on the line of the Lexington Railroad immediately, and have the cars follow and take them up as soon as possible. Further orders will await them at Midway. I will, in three or four hours, move forward on the Georgetown pike ; will have most of my men mounted. Morgan left Versailles this morning, at eight o'clock, with 850 men, on the Midway road, moving in the direction of Georgetown.
Página 304 - The men seemed actuated by a desire to "pay off" in the "enemy's country" all scores that the Federal army had chalked up in the South. The great cause for apprehension, which our situation might have inspired, seemed MANIA FOR PILLAGING.
Página 136 - Nashville, a body of 300 infantry totally cut up or taken prisoners, the liberation of those kind friends arrested by our revengeful foes for no other reason than their compassionate care of our sick and wounded, would have been laurels sufficient for your brows ; but soldiers...
Página 384 - His slayers broke down the paling around the garden, dragged him through, and, while he was tossing his arms in his dying agonies, threw him across a mule, and paraded his body about the town, shouting and screaming in savage exultation. No effort was made by any one except Lieutenant Hawkins to accomplish his rescue.
Página 417 - Renfrew the Silent spoke — spoke from the depths of his once brilliant jacket — "you South Carolinians had a good deal to say about getting up this war, but we Kentuckians have contracted to close it out." Then came the last Confederate council of war. In turn, each officer spoke of his men and of himself and each to the same effect; the cause was lost and there was no use in prolonging the war.
Página 375 - Gardner, had been fighting hard on his left, while the other two were acting with the first battalion. Captain Kirkpatrick, severely wounded, was forced to quit the field. About the same time, gallant Bowles was driven from his second position, strong as it was, by overpowering numbers. Colonel Smith now retreated through Cynthiana, seeking to rejoin General Morgan on the Augusta road. He suddenly found himself intercepted and surrounded on three sides by the enemy, while upon the other side was...